Biographies

Hughes, Harriet. The Works of Mrs. Hemans with a Memoir of her Life, Vol. 1. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857, 352p.

Biography of Hemans by her sister.

Ritchie, Lady. "Felicia Felix." In Blackstick Papers, pp. 16-30. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1908.

Biographical portrait of Hemans including quotations and correspondence from literary friends.

Criticism

Review of Modern Greece, by Felicia Hemans. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine I, No. V (August 1817): 515-18.

Favorable critical notice of Modern Greece.

Blain, Virginia. "'Thou with Earth's Music Answerest the Sky': Felicia Hemans, Mary Ann Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood." Women's Writing. The Elizabethan to Victorian Period 2, No. 3 (1995): 251-69.

Uses the false assumption that Hemans was the biological sister of poet Mary Ann Browne to illustrate certain nineteenth-century notions of sisterhood and how these notions shaped the public's perception of women's poetry.

Chorley, Henry F. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, with Illustrations of Her Literary Character from Her Private Correspondence. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836, 272p.

Account of Hemans's literary development including excerpts from her letters.

Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love—The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. London: Routledge, 1990, 245p.

Studies "the incompatibility of literary ambition and wifely duty" through the relationships between Carlyle, the Jewsbury sisters, and Hemans.

"Mrs. Hemans and the Picturesque School." Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country XXI, No. CXXII (February 1840): 127-46.

Biographical and critical essay that also relates Hemans's powers of picturesque description to those of Homer, Virgil, Thomas Gray, and others.

McGann, Jerome J. "Literary History, Romanticism, and Felicia Hemans." In Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837, edited by Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner, pp. 210-27. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

A roundtable discussion among three scholars of Romanticism assessing Hemans's position in the canon of British Romantic poetry.

Park, L. J. Review of The Forest Sanctuary and Other Poems, by Felicia Hemans. The Christian Examiner and Theological Review III, No. V (September and October 1826): 403-18.

Praises Hemans's The Forest Sanctuary.

Ross, Marlon B. The Contours of Masculine Desire. Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, 344p.

Studies Hemans as well as other women poets of her generation against the notions of Romanticism built around primary male poets in order to re-examine Romantic ideology and its buried gender dynamics.

Tuckerman, H. T. "Essay." In Poems by Felicia Hemans with an Essay on her Genius, edited by Rufus W. Griswold, pp. v-xvi. New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d.

Evaluative essay on Hemans's poetry in which the critic praises her "earnestness of soul" and her "pure, lofty, and earnest sentiment."

Additional coverage of Hemans's life and career is contained in the following source published by Gale Research: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 96.